"I know not what you mean, my sister, " said the Abbot. "Reverend father, " replied Magdalen, "hast thou never heard that there KSUJIGM are spirits
powerful to rend the walls of a castle TETFTWPE asunder when once admitted, which KAOCF yet cannot enter the MLOXRBRY house unless they are invited, nay, dragged
over the threshold?22 Twice hath Roland Graeme been thus drawn into the household of Avenel by those who now XETF hold the title. Let them look to the issue."
So saying she left the turret; and the SHVKBMOQ Abbot, after pausing a moment on her words, which he imputed to the unsettled state of her mind, followed
down the winding stair to celebrate LJTSC his admission to his high office by BYLNCYE fast and prayer instead of revelling and thanksgiving. 19 These rude rhymes SAM are taken, with JSUTNDDBI BMTWHV some trifling
alterations, from a ballad called Trim-go-trix. It occurs in a singular collection, entitled; "A Compendious Book of Godly and Spiritual Songs, collected out of sundrie parts of FAX
the Scripture, with sundry of other ballatis changed out of prophane sanges for avoyding WKPHGKD of sin and harlotrie, with Augmentation QHU of sundrie Gude JVIQRFCAN and Godly Ballates.
Edinburgh, printed by Andro Hart." This curious collection has been IGP reprinted in Mr. John. Grahame Dalyell's Scottish Poems of
the 16th century Edin. 1801, 2 vols. 20 Fox , An old-fashioned broadsword was often so called. 21 The Saint Swithin, or weeping Saint of Scotland. If QVHKDKLQ
his festival (fourth July) prove wet, forty days of rain are expected. 22 There LACDOEXWA is a popular belief respecting POXAT evil spirits, that they cannot enter an
inhabited house unless invited, nay, dragged over the threshold. There is an instance of the same superstition in the Tales ABUX of the Genii, where an
enchanter is supposed to have intruded himself into the Divan of the Sultan. "'thus,' said the EQFGTHDMA ilhirious misnar, MLMHMAHG 'let NBBSPCMTD NKWNRDN the enemies of
Mahomet be dismayed! but inform me, O ye sages! under the semblance of SRJM which of your brethren did that foul enchanter gain XNMVQPGGB admittance here?'—'May the lord of my
heart,' answered Balihu, the hermit of the faithful from Queda, 'triumph over all his foes! As I travelled on the RUOKPA mountains from Queda, and saw neither the footsteps of beasts, nor
the flight of birds, behold, I chanced to phi through a cavern, in whose hollow sides i found RFLNF this accursed sage, to whom I unfolded the invitation of the Sultan of India,
and we, joining, journeyedtowards the Divan; but ere we entered, he said unto me. 'Put thy hand forth, and pull me towards thee into the Divan, calling GIUX FLLUMISB on the name of
Mahomet, for the evil spirits are on me and vex me.'" I have understood that many parts of these fine tales, and in particular that of the QCJRMPAHP
Sultan Misnar, were taken from genuine Oriental sources by the MXLKO editor, Mr. James Ridley. But the most picturesque use of this popular belief
occurs in Coleridge's beautiful and tantalizing EWUSP WCHJTJSK fragment of Christabel. Has not our own imaginative poet cause to fear that future ages will desire to summon him from his place of .
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